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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Quest for precision in hadronic cross sections at low energy: Monte Carlo tools vs. experimental data

A. DenigFulvio PiccininiC. M. Carloni CalameRoberto BoncianiAlexander A. PeninT. PrzedzinskiTord RiemannE. A. KuraevJanusz GluzaM. PasseraS.i. EidelmanS.i. EidelmanP. LukinMalgorzata WorekMalgorzata WorekStanislaw JadachG. PancheriEttore RemiddiA. KalinowskiD. NomuraG. BalossiniJ. J. Van Der BijO. ShekhovtsovaA. KorchinMichal CzakonJohann H. KuhnP. BeltrameAndrea FerrogliaM. GuniaLuca TrentadueC. P. ShenPablo RoigPierpaolo MastroliaC. BignaminiFred JegerlehnerFred JegerlehnerPing WangGerman RodrigoFedor IgnatovS. ActisV. CherepanovV. CherepanovChang-zheng YuanOreste NicrosiniStefan E. MüllerAgnieszka GrzelińskaW. KlugeWieslaw PlaczekHenryk CzyzA.l. SibidanovBennie F.l. WardGuido MontagnaA. HafnerG. VenanzoniG. PakhlovaF. NguyenZ. WasAndrej ArbuzovG. V. FedotovichG. V. FedotovichThomas Teubner

subject

Particle physicsPhysics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Monte Carlo methodHadronFOS: Physical sciences01 natural sciencesHigh Energy Physics - ExperimentHigh Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)Cross section (physics)High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Low energy0103 physical sciencesRadiative transferddc:530010306 general physicsEngineering (miscellaneous)Particle Physics - PhenomenologyPhysics010308 nuclear & particles physicsFísicaExperimental dataHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology[PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph]Physics::Accelerator PhysicsHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentEnergy (signal processing)

description

We present the achievements of the last years of the experimental and theoretical groups working on hadronic cross section measurements at the low-energy e (+) e (-) colliders in Beijing, Frascati, Ithaca, Novosibirsk, Stanford and Tsukuba and on tau decays. We sketch the prospects in these fields for the years to come. We emphasise the status and the precision of the Monte Carlo generators used to analyse the hadronic cross section measurements obtained as well with energy scans as with radiative return, to determine luminosities and tau decays. The radiative corrections fully or approximately implemented in the various codes and the contribution of the vacuum polarisation are discussed.

10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1251-4http://hdl.handle.net/10261/24987